Optional type annotations started to enter Python around 3.8, and they have really improved the experience. Even if nothing enforces the annotations, the IDEs can pick them up and show them to you in all the usual places.

Exactly, there is a place in the world for startups burning 80 hr/wk. Just compensate the people who are doing that adequately with equity, and hire risk takers who want that kind of risk.

The current situation with most commercial airplane equipment is that:

• It’s triple redundant (second backup) if a failure would put the ship at serious risk of total hull loss or fatal injury to crew.
• It’s double redundant (just one backup) if a failure doesn’t jeopardize the whole ship, but there is a risk of serious or fatal injury to passengers. This also applies if system failure significantly increases or burdens crew workload.

Out of many problems with this form of lying, these State Department reports are used as presumptive evidence in asylum cases.

Let’s say someone from El Salvador comes to the to US and requests political asylum in grounds of torture and persecution. The government submits as evidence this State Dept report that says that there is no torture in El Salvador. The immigration judge is required by law to presume that the State Dept is telling the truth. Then it’s up to the asylum claimant to provide hard evidence to rebut that presumption.

If your work is the Texas House of Representatives, the House sergeant at arms or his designee can actually arrest you and drag you back to work. This is authorized in the Texas Constitution, and in the rules of the House.

This power does not extend beyond the territory of Texas. The US Constitution specifically only allows extradition between states for crimes, which this is definitely not. The FBI enforces federal laws, and it has no authority to enforce the rules of a state legislature.

1. The court ruling reaffirmed that ICE needs reasonable suspicion to stop and detain people on the streets of the United States, and probable cause to arrest.
2. It was a violation of the Penske rental agreement to transport ICE agents in the cargo compartment.

Do red state jails and prisons respect ICE detainers at higher rates than blue states? Is this simply a situation where ICE does the laziest thing possible to meet an imposed quota?

That number is at the high end of what I usually see for consulting work. The high hourly rate has to cover all of the HR and accounting overhead, invoicing, marketing, business development, and the opportunity cost of short term engagement vs. long term engagements.

California’s a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in and see. But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot if you ain’t got the do re mi.

That’s why they’re leaving the state. It’s conceivable that Texas Rangers could arrest lawmakers on these warrants for the purpose of returning them directly to the legislature. It’s much less conceivable that Texas can get extradition from another state.

Okay folks, here’s the financial breakdown.

Total compensatory damages, covering actual harms (tangible and intangible): $129 million. Punitive damages: $200 million. Sum: $329 million.

Punitive damages are capped at 3x compensatory damages, but that’s not a factor here because it’s less than 2x.

Tesla was assigned 33% of the blame. The driver is 67% to blame.

That gives Tesla a bill of ($129 million * 33%) + ($200 million), because the punitive damages were assessed against Tesla only. Total Tesla payout: $242 million.

The driver is liable for the rest: $87 million. Plaintiffs will presumably be able to extract a tiny fraction of that from insurance.

If transgender people don’t exist, then exactly whom are they trying to kick out?

But when you do shoot yourself in the foot, it blows your whole leg off.

The Federal Open Market Committee has 12 members. Jerome Powell has one vote; the board of governors have 7 votes. Jerome Powell announces and explains the decisions of the committee to the public, but it is insane to imagine that he is making those decisions alone without the backing of a majority of the committee.

The actual, Actual Final Confederate Flag carried to Appomattox (also cleans minor kitchen stains):

At least it lets the police do some ballistics testing to verify that the bullets at the scene came out of that gun.

If you can account for all of the bullets and preferably all of the shell casings as well, it goes a long way to rule out more complicated scenarios like additional firearms or shooters.

They add both sugar and acid, what else ya want?

MSG? Oh wait…

I bet their free energy machine even has a secret plug into the wall!

Speaking for the United States, any document or other exhibit is only admitted into evidence when a witness gets on the stand and testifies under oath as to what the document is. So if someone wants a court to believe that, say, a computer log is authentic, they have to produce a witness to testify about the authenticity. This is where anti tampering measures can be discussed, if relevant.

That witness is then subject to cross examination, which can reveal any holes or gaps. Cross examination can also be used to impeach the credibility of the witness themself.

Once an exhibit is admitted into evidence, the trier of fact, either a judge or jury, will assign a credibility level to it based on the sum total of evidence presented and their own common sense.

It sounds like she’s saying that regardless of how culpable she may have been, she should be covered by one of the sweetheart immunity deals that the feds made with Epstein.